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In your words 3 Replies

What is ascemic writing?What is visual poetry?I have a pen pal who is interested in learning about them after telling her that I read Judith women making visual poetry and it was my favorite art book of 2021.Your responses will be printed and mailed…Continue

Tags: writing, ascemic, poetry, Visual

Started by JAC MAIL. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Feb 2.

Personal shorthand jazz writings with words. 5 Replies

Can ideas like this be included in the asemic type of development?Jazzy script in a kind of shorthand notation?Continue

Started by Bill Newbold. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Feb 7, 2022.

Spontaneous Asemics 18 Replies

I am curious how members view the phenomenon of spontaneous asemics and if they ever experience something like I did this afternoon. I was tidying my workspace and while lifting a pile of paper I detected marks of ink that got stuck to the plastic…Continue

Started by Carien van Hest. Last reply by JCW Maine May 8, 2021.

The Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper - Start Your Career Today! - Special Discount for Prisoners 164 Replies

The Martha Stuart School of Asemic WallpaperFounder:Martha StuartAdministration:Katerina Nikoltsou, Dean of AsemicsDiane Keys, Minister of Propaganda, Student AmbassadorSnooker the Amazing Mail-art Dog, Dean of MenDavid Stafford, Dean of WomenDe…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by Francis Lammé Dec 9, 2020.

font creator program 2 Replies

Hi I am new here because by chance I saw your question. I have used Fontographer to create my own fonts from drawings and it is easy and free. It will work with W7, I think. You need a painting /graphic program to create tiny drawings of each…Continue

Started by Mail Art Martha. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 24, 2020.

Definition of Asemic Writing - Adapted from Wikipedia 12 Replies

Adapted from Wikipedia Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content.” With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by david-baptiste chirot Feb 18, 2019.

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 13, 2011 at 12:35pm

Bruno, we DO live in the shadow of a Golden Age of concrete poetry in the 1950s and 1960s. Great innovations were made, and the work reached a relatively large audience.

 

Is that work the equivalent to "The Wasteland: and "The Cantos" - the work of the old masters? It is not always bad to have a tradition, and it is probably inevitable. It is also inevitable that to move forward one must rebel against it.

 

Ginny Lloyd posted something here at the IUOMA recently. Richard Kostelantz (spg?), one of the old masters of concrete poetry in NY, basically begged the new generations to keep using letters and words in their work. So something has definitely changed.

 

Based on the work I see - this could be another Golden Age too. Again, I think important strides are being made.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 13, 2011 at 12:23pm
Bruno, great link! I think it's important that people post links such as this. Visual poetry is part of the mail-art network. But it is also a world beyond mail-art. We need to see the work that is being done. I think VERY important progress is being made by the visual poets. Sometimes it is subtle.

You know I am prone to make GRANDIOSE statements. Saying Diane Keys is the Ezra Pound of the 21st century is a large claim - I'm just trying to make a point. I think visual poets could be the leaders in the years ahead. Traditional poetry is certainly - ah - not in good shape.

I like the work of Anatol Knotek from Austria.

Again - great link Bruno. Keep giving them to us!
Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 13, 2011 at 11:45am

Here at the beginning of the 21st century, Diane's girdle vispo is as important as this poem by Ezra Pound was at the beginning of the 20th:

 

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 13, 2011 at 12:37am

Bruno, everyone is doing great work and we're seeing breakthrough stuff at points. I'm interested in poetry, as you know, and I think DK has written a poem here. Yet it becomes integrated with the page to make vispo. Personally, I am looking for poetry. I think DK has written a poem - this stretches toward the literary side rather than visual arts.

 

BTW - Bruno I received your mail-art! Thanks. You know I will blog if Simba doesn't get it.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 12, 2011 at 10:42pm

DK sent this to Arttower. This is poetry. I am taking this VERY seriously:

 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 12, 2011 at 2:12pm
I'm trying to follow everything Helen Amyes is posting - it's an asemic blitz from her - outstanding work, IMHO.
Comment by DKeys on May 12, 2011 at 1:45pm
I love this piece by Sue-very beautiful and makes me want to touch it. Eduardo -love your doodles of mail art coming to life!
Comment by cheryl penn on May 12, 2011 at 7:03am
Bruno :-))))! I know that round tastes like peppermint, triangles like chillies and squares like licorice!
Comment by Eduardo Cardoso on May 11, 2011 at 11:48pm
Doodles + asemic writing
Comment by prettylily on May 11, 2011 at 2:06pm
Hey, I've been up for hours!
 

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